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* The 2012 wildfire season was the third most destructive on record in the U.S. in terms of total acres burned
* Several of the individual fires that occurred in 2012 set records, including Colorado's Waldo Canyon Fire, which destroyed 346 homes, and New Mexico's Whitewater-Baldy Fire, which burned more than 297,000 acres.
* NOAA continues to predict a pattern of drought conditions through the start of 2013, suggesting the potential for another increase in wildfire risk across much of the country.